“Come away to a deserted place all by yourself and rest a while.” (Mark 6:31) Since 2020, we have experienced the far-reaching effects of COVID-19, with the...
Ministries
Sullivan McCormick paced the sidewalk for 10 minutes before he had the courage to stop. Finally, leaning next to a fire hydrant on a street corner in...
The Indigenous Alaskan Yup’ik people have 30 terms to describe the color of snow. When Father Stan Jaszek began ministering to them, he only knew one of the...
When Tony Calumet landed in Nome, Alaska in September 2020, he whispered a prayer: “If this is what you want, God, you’re going to have to help me.” At nearly...
After the death of his son Eric in a mountain climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff summed up the dilemma of the grieving parent in his book, Lament for a...
Every fall, 40 Days for Life—an annual campaign promoted throughout the church in the United States—advocates for the sanctity of life and an end to abortion...
In 2010 a series of deaths by suicide began in the interior Alaskan villages surrounding Tanana, a community of approximately 200 people, most of whom are...
On April 18, 2021 nearly 100 students gathered in near-freezing temperatures at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota for a prayerful vigil...
In this “new” world, where so much of our spiritual lives have had to move online, we’ve been powerfully reminded how much we need one another and how...
As COVID-19 cases rose rapidly in March 2020, dioceses around the United States responded by closing church doors to keep their communities safe. For many...
